Electrically operated kitchen appliance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10130216-B2
Application number	US-201314421535-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 2, 2013
Priority date	Aug 16, 2012
Publication date	Nov 20, 2018
Grant date	Nov 20, 2018

Abstract

An electrically operated kitchen appliance includes a mixing container, an electric-motor operated mixer in the mixing container, and a lid for the mixing container, wherein the lid preferably can be locked by an electric motor. A combination of at least the following features is proposed: the electric motor (19) producing the locking has an output power of 1 to 10 watts; the electric motor acts on a locking part via a reduction gear train having a reduction greater than 50:1; the electric motor is a direct-current motor. A kitchen appliance of the type in question may furthermore have a first electric motor for locking the lid and a second electric motor for driving the mixer. The kitchen appliance may be designed in such a way that, when a rotational speed of the mixer is preselected, the first electric motor first performs the lid locking independently and the second electric motor is released to drive the mixer thereafter.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electrically operated kitchen appliance, comprising a first electric motor, a second electric motor, a mixing container, a mixer in the mixing container operated by the second electric motor, a locking part and a lid for the mixing container that is lockable by the first electric motor and the locking part, wherein:
the first electric motor producing the locking has an output power of 1 to 10 watts; and
the first electric motor acts on the locking part, wherein between the first electric motor and the locking part is a reduction gear train having a reduction greater than 50:1; and
the first electric motor is a direct-current motor.

2. The kitchen appliance according to claim 1 wherein the locking operation takes place at least partially in overload operation.

3. The kitchen appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the motor current of the first electric motor can be evaluated.

4. The kitchen appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the direction of rotation of the first electric motor can be reversed.

5. The kitchen appliance according to claim 1 , wherein a torque limitation can be carried out by monitoring the motor current.

6. The kitchen appliance according to claim 1 , wherein a turn-off is made possible in response to overload by monitoring the motor current.

7. The kitchen appliance according claim 1 , wherein a reversal of the direction of rotation can be triggered by monitoring the motor current.

8. The kitchen appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the kitchen appliance is designed in such a way that, when a rotational speed of the mixer is preselected, the first electric motor first performs the lid locking independently and the second electric motor is released to drive the mixer thereafter.

9. The kitchen appliance according to claim 8 wherein after the time, for which a certain rotational speed had been preselected, has lapsed and the mixer was driven accordingly, an opening of the lid locking takes place independently, wherein the opening takes place after a predetermined time has lapsed, starting with the standstill of the mixer.

10. The kitchen appliance according to claim 8 , wherein the predetermined time is different depending on the preselected rotational speed.

11. The electrically operated kitchen appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the lid is lockable from a locking state open, wherein the kitchen appliance is designed in such a way that the locking must have taken place within a certain period of time, for the purpose of which provision is made for sensors, which detect that the locking took place, and, in the alternative, an error message is output and/or the locking is set back into the state open.

12. The kitchen appliance according to claim 11 wherein the predetermined locking time is less than 2 seconds, up to less than 0.5 seconds.

13. The kitchen appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the reduction gear train has a reduction greater than 50:1 to 200:1.

14. The kitchen appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the first electric motor is a comparatively small electric motor.

Assignees

• Vorwerk Co Interholding

Inventors

• Caldewey Uwe

Classifications

• B01F2215/0014

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• A47J43/046

  with tools driven from the bottom side · CPC title

• B01F15/00201

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B01F15/00538

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• A47J43/0716

  for machines with tools driven from the lower side (A47J43/0727 - A47J43/08 take precedence) · CPC title